Ministry of Labour and the Dariu Foundation of Switzerland sign MoU on digital technology training
Heng Sour, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, and Rajiv Pradhan, Country Director in Cambodia of the Dariu Foundation of Switzerland, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the Digital Literacy Initiative for young people and students of technical training institutions to receive digital education for ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501445560/ministry-of-labour-and-the-dariu-foundation-of-switzerland-sign-mou-on-digital-technology-training/
Meet focuses on technology’s role in sustainable agriculture
The state-run Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (ARDB) is hosting the three-day 47th Association of Development Financing Institutions (DFIs) in Asia and the Pacific’s (ADFIAP) annual meetings that kicked off in Phnom Penh, yesterday, outlining the role of technology and innovation in enhancing agricultural productivity, ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501489148/meet-focuses-on-technologys-role-in-sustainable-agriculture/
Conference Highlights the Country's Math Deficiency
Education experts and professors from around the world gathered over the weekend in Phnom Penh to discuss ways to strengthen mathematics in Cambodia and other developing countries. the problem is not a lack of student capability, said Lin Mongkolsery, a mathematics teacher at the Institute ...
Banks to expand amid sound macroeconomy
Some of Cambodia’s largest banks and financial institutions have announced plans to expand their businesses following solid macroeconomic performance so far this year. The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) in July projected that the Kingdom’s economy is poised to have grown 7.1 per cent this year. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banks-expand-amid-sound-macroeconomy
Domestic violence campaign starts
Local and international NGOs, universities and government institutions on Monday began the annual international “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” campaign demanding the elimination of all forms of violence against women. National Police spokesman Chhay Kim Khoeun said there was no recorded figure in ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/domestic-violence-campaign-starts
National plan to strengthen gov’t anti-drug campaign
The National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023 directs the authorities and relevant institutions to carry out effective prevention, crackdown and resolution of drug issues, and all commune authorities to be confident in dealing with drug problems in their areas. The directive was made during the drafting ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-plan-strengthen-govt-anti-drug-campaign
Country Is Prepared for Heavy Rains, Disaster Committee Says
To make sure Cambodia is ready for potential devastating floods, government officials have created an emergency preparedness plan that includes storing 16,000 tons of milled rice and putting 3,500 armed forces on reserve. [Nhim Vanda, first vice president in charge of the National Committee for Disaster Management ...
UN Envoy Paints Bleak Picture of Economic Land Concessions
Economic land concessions (ELCs) benefit only a minority, the human rights consequences of the concessions are stark, and Cambodia’s sustainable economic development is threatened by the practice. U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi told the Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday. Mr. Subedi cited uneven access to ...
Credit at Cambodia's banks grows by 5.4 pct in first half
Lending at Cambodia’s commercial banks increased by 5.4 percent in the first six months of this year thanks to a better economic situation, a central bank official said Monday. Nguon Sokha, director general of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), said that the kingdom’s 34 commercial ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-08/05/c_132603705.htm
New deadlock but old tactics, analysts say
Ahead of today’s hearing on Cambodia’s record at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, opposition figures and analysts said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has reverted to familiar tactics of post-election suppression. Analysts yesterday said that the breaking up of Cambodia National Rescue Party-led protests ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-deadlock-old-tactics-analysts-say
Government issues a directive to curb air pollution in Kingdom
With concern over increased air pollution affecting people’s health, the government yesterday issued a directive ordering all institutions to prevent and reduce emissions. According to a directive signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday, pollutants are produced by factories, vehicles, forest fire, rubbish and waste burning ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50676086/government-issues-a-directive-to-curb-air-pollution-in-kingdom
Ministry: Take private schools, exams online
Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron on Monday advised private academic institutions to adopt online teaching to provide students with the opportunity to continue their studies. For students in grades nine and 12 who have to take examinations, the ministry will allow ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-take-private-schools-exams-online
EU doles out $500M in economic, job aid
Team Europe – the combined efforts of the EU, its member states and their financial institutions and implementing agencies – is mobilising €443 million ($503 million) in grants and loans to work with Cambodia in fighting Covid-19 and mitigating its socio-economic impacts. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-doles-out-500m-economic-job-aid
SME Bank ‘must relax its criteria for loans’
THE President of the Federation of Associations of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FASMEC) Te Taingpor has requested the SME Bank of Cambodia and participating financial institutions to extend the payment period of the SME Co-Financing Scheme from four to six years and take ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50720985/sme-bank-must-relax-its-criteria-for-loans/
Opportunities, challenges for ASEAN
Cambodia will face both challenges and opportunities when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) combines its 10 countries into a single market for economic development, a move intended for 2015, officials said during a round-table discussion yesterday. Sok Siphanna, an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ...
Tourism intervention package gets traction amid recovery
Seven months after the announcement of the $150 million co-financial intervention package, only $41.52 million has been released to the businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic by the state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) and other participating financial institutions, according ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501216262/tourism-intervention-package-gets-traction-amid-recovery/
World Wetlands Day marked with calls to action
The Ministry of Environment and several institutions marked February 2, World Wetlands Day with an event that increased public awareness of the value and the role of wetlands and their current conditions. Presiding over the event in Battambang province, environment ministry secretary of state Srun ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-wetlands-day-marked-calls-action
Interest-free loans to lure businesses
HCM CITY — The HCM City government will offer interest-free loans to local companies doing business in the city, Laos and Cambodia. With a stimulus package of VND8 trillion (US$381 million), the city has approved interest-fee loans of up to VND100 billion ($4.7 million) over ...
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Economy/215583/Interest-free-loans-to-lure-businesses.html
Whereabouts of Bavet governor still a mystery
Government and police officials were at a loss yesterday to pinpoint the whereabouts of the Bavet town governor, who has been identified as a suspect in the shooting of three women at a protest two weeks ago. An arrest warrant had still not been issued for ...
Cambodia Nothing To Fear From Openness And Competitions: Trade Minister
Cambodia so far has not feared for creating ASEAN economic community 2015 and deeper ASEAN and East Asia regional integration as the region will have free flow of goods, worker mobilization, finance and investment,” trade minister Cham Prasidh said on June 12. His announcement was made during the workshop of ASEAN economic community 2015. “We ...